Mullingar had 23 days of sunshine during May

The long spell of spectacularly good weather witnessed everywhere meant that Mullingar enjoyed 23 consecutive days of sunshine, according to the official Weather Statement for May 2025 released by Met Éireann.

The statement said that May 2025 was warm, dry and very sunny overall.

Blocking high pressure, positioned mostly to the north of Ireland, dominated for the first three weeks of the month with Atlantic low pressure breaking through in the final week, which saw westerly winds return with low pressure to the north steering several frontal rain-bands across the country, interspersed with sunshine and showers.

There was zero rainfall in Mullingar over the 23 days of sunshine.

According to the service, temperatures were above average everywhere, and the warmest on record in parts of the south and west.

The month’s highest temperature was reported at Newport, County Mayo on Tuesday May 13 with a temperature of 24.8 °C.

The month’s lowest air and grass minimum were recorded at Mount Dillon, Roscommon, with the lowest air temperature reported on Tuesday, May 6 with -0.9 °C, and the lowest grass minimum was -6.9 °C reported on Monday May 5. More than half of stations reported ground frost.

The number of days with ground frost ranged from zero days at a few stations to 21 days at Mount Dillon.

Less than half of stations reported air frost. The number of days with air frost ranged from zero days at Phoenix Park, Dublin to two days at both Dunsany, Meath and Mount Dillon, its second sunniest May behind 2020.

All available sunshine totals were above their long-term averages.